GEO 106 Chapter Notes -Dream Interpretation, Intentionality, North American Free Trade Agreement
2 Oct 2013
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Home feeling: the struggle for a community movie (handout) Territory: the continuous or discontinuous space used by an individual or group for interactions that contribute to satisfying the need for sustenance, security, stimulation, and identity. Functions of territory relate to keeping the group within communication distance and coordination of activities. Territoriality: persistent attachment of individuals or groups to a specific territory. Sack (1983): suggests that territoriality can be seen as strategies to control an area and to achieve control over other people, resources or relationships. It provides a way to meet social-cultural needs of groups, such as: Regulation of access to people and resources. Provision of a focus and a symbol of group membership and identity. See attempts to control an area by individuals, clubs, gangs, unions, corporations, nations, groups of states (nafta) Figure 5. 1 territoriality and personal space pp. 2 major mechanisms are used by people to control, maintain and defend their space from others:
